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have hurt me. they werent meant to be mean and they weren't but they hurt my feelings. i waited til everyone had left me alone at work and then i cried cuz of those words. it just goes to confirm what i already suspected that people thought of me and i hate being viewed this way. i absolutely hate it and i don't know how to fix it. and even worse i feel so emotionally weak cuz i let words hurt me, when they were supposed to help me and then i have to pretend like they don't hurt too. why am i such a disappointment to myself? i thought i was making progress but i'm just lying to myself giving myself false hope. now it hurts even more.

little hint based on your own words &quot;it just goes to confirm what i already suspected that people thought of me&quot;, its not their words that're hurting you, its your own words against you. so you're not letting them hurt you, you're hurting yourself. and you get to decide the words you speak to yourself so all you have to do is pick the ones that make you feel better :)

A wise person once told me to look deep into a mirror and be honest with myself. Why do I deserve the good things in life? What makes me better than my oun assumptions of myself? And what do I project to everyone else that doesn't fit my basice profile. It helped me a lot. Frankly it's not easy to do though. It might be worth a try though.

thank you all so much for caring. you just don't know how much it means to me right now especially.

prodirk45, that last question really hit home for me. i know that i don't project myself to people as i truly am. sometimes i just get so anxious around people and so concerned about their thoughts of me that i kinda just mimick the people i am around instead of being myself mainly cuz i am such a people pleaser and because i have done this my whole life.

Join the club. I've had what I call an automask when it comes to personal interaction. Here I feel like I'm not face to face so the mask get's drawn off. My wife, whom I trust more that I ever trusted the other two, is flailing a little over the incident yesterday and the day before. But at least she now knows the scoop and has a chance herself to be understanding of where I come from. I hope this helps.. even though it seems like babbling..

I try to pause and analyze things in my head before I freak out totally. I mean most of the time it is the way that I perceived the comments from others that ahave caused me pain and not that the others were maliciously attacking my happiness. Try to take a pause and a deep breath and change the perception. Think about what was going on at the time that may have influenced it. Maybe they were having a stressful time and that makes some have diarehha of the mouth where words come out that should have never been released?

I guess the main point is you are NOT alone. The main thing this place has tought me and gotten me back to try and contributr the best I can is that fact. I am not alone. And people that don't know me even are willing to help in their own way. So you may want to thing of that. The best way to change the world is one random act of kindness at a time..

I have always said this.. &quot;Sticks and Stones can break my bones.. But Whips and Chains excite me&quot;.... Ok just kidding..
You need to work on the self-esteem thing. I think alot of us with depression have a real problem from no self-esteem or self-worth. How can you think other people will love you if you cant even like yourself? Its a real hard thing to work on but if we dont have a reasonable self-image then its alot harder to deal with our disease..

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